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The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examines the language of colour in Islamic art and architecture in dialogue with its aesthetic contexts, offering insights into the pre-modern Muslim experience of interpreting colour.

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The definitive book about 20th and 21st century Iranian art renowned art historian, Hamid Keshmirshekan, the editor-in-chief of the bilingual Quarterly, Art Tomorrow, and a visiting professor at the University of Oxford. This book contains 379 full colour images, covering a broad range of artists residing both in and outside Iran.

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The most up-to-date and comprehensive study on the effect of conflict on young people in the Middle East and North Africa today.

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Who shot Kamar al-Dawla Alwan Was it a crime of passion What was the role of the beautiful peasant girl Rim Is the mysterious Sheikh Asfur as crazy as he seems Partly autobiographical, this Egyptian comedy of errors takes the form of the journal of a young public prosecutor posted to a village in rural Egypt.

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* A warm and humorous novel about working-class Algerian women in France as they reconcile their inherited trauma of migration with forging a future on their terms by an internationally bestselling and award-winning author.

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* A warm and humorous novel about working-class Algerian women in France as they reconcile their inherited trauma of migration with forging a future on their terms by an internationally bestselling and award-winning author.

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Don't Panic, I'm Islamic: Words and Pictures on How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Alien Next Door is a collection of satirical writings, cartoons and art by writers and artists from around the world.

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Examines the dynamics of Arab foreign-policy-making in the twenty-first century. This book includes four case studies, the Middle East Peace process, the Water crisis, the Food crisis, and Saudi Arabia's foreign policy, that enable a wide-ranging analysis for understanding contemporary Arab politics and its role in world affairs.

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New paperback edition of critically acclaimed, lively and gripping account of the British invasion and occupation of Iraq and of the Arab revolt against it, the most serious armed uprising against British rule in the twentieth century. Vividly brings to life key players such as Winston Churchill, T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Sir Mark Sykes.

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Reveals how, military and political leaders in Belgrade followed the pattern of manipulating cultural motifs in order to justify their repression of Kosovans, and their aggression in Croatia and Bosnia. This work also reveals how Croatian and Bosnian military and political elites mobilized their own social memories during post-Yugoslav wars.

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Set at the outbreak of the war in Bosnia, this diary, penned by the award-winning journalist, records the unfolding of events. It describes in detail not only the horrifying war - with the looting, ethnic cleansing and betrayal that became commonplace - but also the mental strain of war on the individual.

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This anthology of translated short stories is representative of the variety of issues that women from Bangladesh tackle in their writings. It includes stories about the 1971 War of Liberation, women's 'honour', mother-daughter relationships, the vagaries of marriage and contemporary political corruption.

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A biography of Gengis Khan, this book provides a picture showing that the 'bloodthirsty barbarian' was also a visionary statesman and that behind the Oriental despot lay a strategist of genius. It also provides an insight into Mongol society and culture.

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Explores the man behind the legend, revealing his development as a ruler of an empire that was shaken to the core by religious and social revolt. This book presents a tale of war, culture and political intrigue during the reign of the legendary Harun al-Rashid from "The Thousand and One Nights".

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Nowhere in the world is university education expanding as rapidly as in the six-member state of the Gulf Cooperation Council. This study, with contributions by key decision makers, charts this dramatic development, exploring the challenges faced and placing the accomplishments within the social, economic and political context of the region.

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Honour killing persists across the Middle East, where regimes refrain from tackling primitive traditions for fear of sparking unrest. Based on interviews of imprisoned men in Turkey convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters, this title provides an account of ruined lives - both the victims' and the killers'.

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In October 2015, photographer Giles Duley was commissioned by the UNHCR to document the refugee crisis.

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This history of dancing is rich with fascinating anecdotes (like the New Jersey girl arrested for dancing the Turkey Trot on her lunch hour) and astonishing facts (the first geisha were men), as well as tender portrayals of dancers whose stage antics have earned them lasting fame.

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Features several photographs from a defining era of the Central Asian region, collected and annotated by a descendant of the photographer. The photographs provide us with a rare Russian point of view of the Great Game - the rivalry between Britain and Russia for the domination of Central Asia.

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This book attempts to challenge the exclusion of the male perspective from Middle Eastern studies of gender. This collection of essays and articles investigates ways in which men are acting, reacting and adapting to structural upheaval of the 'traditional' family.

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The Jews of Iraq constituted one of the rooted Jewish communities in the world. But in the early 1950s most of them left for Israel. This book examines the years of the later 1940s - when deep rifts began to appear in Iraqi society, and the sad sequence of events that finally led to the mass exodus of Jews in the 1950s.

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At a time when Islam is the focus of attention, vilified by some and a source of inspiration for others, this book seeks to go against the stream. Its radical review of mainstream historiography of Islam draws on interdisciplinary analysis - historical, social, psychological and anthropological.

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This volume provides a historical and conceptual analysis of Islamic art and documents the successes and failings of its presentation in museums worldwide thus far.